He encloses an account of the Pontifical Celebration held in San Francisco on July 2. It is impossible to describe it, the effort being, as Bishop Eugene O'Connoll of Marysville, California said, "like gilding gold or painting a lily" to attempt to add to what he had seen. He calls McMaster's attention of a small item that fills him with both joy and sorrow. Burgess is a descendant of old Irish stock, reared in the Catholic Church. He is joyous at seeing the hidden works of the evil one of Ireland's great champions of liberty made public and in a manner as not to be mistaken. He is sorrowful because of the intelligent Catholic Irishmen in the country who are flocking to the standard of these Irish exiles, placing their heart and purse at the disposal of the chieftains of the Irish Confederation. General Bourke and Dr. Luby were invited to participate in this Papal demonstration by the Archbishop Joseph S. Alemany of San Francisco, but refused because they were afraid of offending their Protestant friends, yet would rather insult their Catholic countrymen and all Catholics not only by this offense, but by their political connection with the Irish confederation. The head of this group is J. O'Donovan Rossa who wrote a poem insulting in nature to true Irish Catholics. The poem was published in the Dublin Nation and the Monitor of San Francisco. The Monitor also published an editorial endorsing a Protestant Archdeacon's repeal movement by which the Irish would break from the Anglo-Papal despotism. Mr. Montgomery was fully justified in the condenation which he pronounced against those Catholics who were afraid. He said that should the day of persecution ever come while these despicable slaves were clinging to their money bags, many Protestants, sincere and honest, that had been kept from the true Church by the cowardly indifference or scandalous lives of bad Catholics, would flock to the standard of the Cross. :: I-1-o A.L.S. 5pp. 12mo.